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	bulgaria - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
		Bulgaria was a significant European power in the 9th and the 10th century, while fighting with the Byzantine Empire for the control of the Balkans.
		Bulgaria regained its independence in 1878 as an autonomous principality and was proclaimed a fully independent kingdom in 1908.
		In the 16th and the 17th century missionaries from the Vatican converted the Bulgarian Paulicians in the districts of Plovdiv and Svishtov to Roman Catholicism.
	www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/Bulgaria (1412 words)

	bulgarians - Article and Reference from OnPedia.com
		Medieval Bulgaria was the most important cultural centre of the Slavs at the end of the 9th and throughout the 10th century.
		Bulgaria exerted a similar influence on its neighbouring countries in the middle and the end of the 14th century, at the time of the Turnovo Literary School, with the work of Patriarch Evtimiy, Grigorii Tsamblak, Konstantin of Kostenets (Konstantin Kostenechki).
		Traditional symbols of the Bulgarians are the Flag of Bulgaria and the Coat of Arms of Bulgaria.
	www.onpedia.com /encyclopedia/Bulgarians (1771 words)

	Bulgaria
		Bulgaria remained economically dependent on the Byzantine Empire, and the widespread Bogomil heresy opposed the secular Bulgarian state and its political ambitions as work of the devil.
		But even after substantial reduction, Bulgaria's reparations payments were 20 percent of her budget in 1928, and the return to the gold standard that year weakened the economy one year before the onset of world depression.
		The country was tied to the former for economic reasons and because Germany promised territorial revision for Bulgaria, and to the latter because Boris was married to the daughter of King Victor Emmanuel III of Italy.
	www.mongabay.com /reference/country_studies/bulgaria/all.html (17973 words)

	Romania - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
		It is bordered by Hungary and Serbia in the west and Bulgaria to the south along the Danube River, Ukraine and Moldova in the northeast.
		Over half a millennium later, the Getae (also named Daci by Romans) were defeated by the Roman Empire under Emperor Trajan in two campaigns stretching from 101 to 106, and the core of their kingdom was turned into the Roman province of Dacia.
		In 271 or 275 the Roman army and administration left Dacia, which was invaded by the Goths, who lived with the local people until the fourth century, when another nomadic people arrived, the Huns.
	www.arikah.com /encyclopedia/Romania (5623 words)

	Bulgaria Resource Center - map of bulgaria
		It borders the property bulgaria Black Sea to the east, Greece and Turkey to the south, Serbia and Montenegro and the Republic of bulgaria plovdiv car rental Macedonia to the west, and Romania to the north along the river Danube.
		According bulgaria holidays to the 2001 census, Bulgaria's population is mainly sunny beach bulgaria ethnic Bulgarian (83.9%), with two sizable minorities in the form of Turks (9.4%) and Roma (4.7%).
		It gradually bulgaria + national sport academy gained ascendancy bulgaria holiday homes throughout the 15th and 16th centuries by introduction implantation bulgaria of Turkish colonists and (usually forceful) conversion of Bulgarians and miss world bulgaria 2001 at the time of the Liberation (1878) not less than 40% of the population of the country was Muslim.
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	Roman Catholicism in Bulgaria - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Roman Catholicism is the third largest religious congregation in Bulgaria, after Eastern Orthodoxy and Islam.
		Bulgarian Catholics live predominantly in the regions of Svishtov and Plovdiv and are mostly descendants of the heretical Christian sect of the Paulicians, which was converted to Roman Catholicism in the 16th and 17th centuries.
		Bulgaria reestablished relations with the Vatican in 1990, and the Bulgarian government invited Pope John Paul II to visit Bulgaria.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Roman_Catholicism_in_Bulgaria (966 words)

	Bulgaria - RELIGION
		From 1949 until 1989, religion in Bulgaria was mainly controlled by the Law on Religious Organizations, which enumerated the limitations on the constitution's basic separation of church and state.
		Roman Catholic missionaries first tried to convert the Bulgarians during the reign of Boris I. They were unsuccessful, and Boris I led the Bulgarians in their conversion to Orthodoxy.
		The former predominated in northern Bulgaria and the latter in the south.
	countrystudies.us /bulgaria/26.htm (2148 words)

	Discover the Wisdom of Mankind on Bulgaria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The struggle for liberation of the Bulgarians in the Adrianople Vilayet and Macedonia continued throughout the end of the 19th and the beginning of the 20th century culminating with the Ilinden-Preobrazhenie Uprising organised by the IMARO in 1903.
		Bulgaria joined NATO on 29 March, 2004 and is set to join the European Union at the earliest on 1 January, 2007 after signing the Treaty of Accession on 25 April 2005.
		Bulgaria is comprised of portions of the classical regions of Thrace, Moesia, and Macedonia.
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	Bulgaria - travel tips
		Bulgaria is situated in south-eastern Europe, in the north-eastern part of the Balkan Peninsula between 41°14' and 44°14' northern latitude and 22°21' and 28°36' eastern longitude.
		Bulgaria has a territory of 110 911 square kilometres which is 22% of the Balkan Peninsula.
		Bulgaria borders to the north on Rumania (the frontier line runs along the Danube river and continues on land to the north-east), to the south - on Greece and Turkey, to the west - on Serbia and Macedonia (former Yugoslavia) and to the east - on the Black Sea.
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	Bulgaria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Bulgaria regained its independence in 1878 as an autonomous principality and was proclaimed a fully independent in 1908.
		The southwest of the country is containing the highest point of the Balkan the Musala at 2 925 m and range of the Balkan mountains runs west-east through the middle of country north of the famous Rose Valley.
		Bulgaria concluded accession talks with the European Union and is set to join the in 2007.
	www.freeglossary.com /Bulgaria (1277 words)

	Background Notes: Bulgaria
		Bulgaria's involvement in these wars was partly due to its ambitions for an outlet to the Aegean Sea and its desire to annex Macedonian and Thracian territory held by Greece, Yugoslavia, and Turkey.
		Bulgaria is a major tobacco producer-the fourth largest exporter of tobacco and the largest exporter of cigarettes (mainly to the Soviet Union).
		Bulgaria's main interest in trade with the West is to import technology to modernize its industrial base and to use more efficiently raw materials and energy.
	dosfan.lib.uic.edu /ERC/bgnotes/eur/bulgaria9001.html (4426 words)

	Bulgaria.com - History, Rulers of Bulgaria - Boris I (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Bulgaria often suffered defeat at the hands of its powerful enemies Byzantium, the German kingdom, Croatia and Serbia, but the state's borders remained unchanged.
		After Bulgaria's conversion to Christianity, the Slavonic language was firmly established as the vehicle of cultural development.
		Both Roman Catholicism and Byzantine Orthodox Christianity were eager to have Bulgaria under their influence.
	www.bulgaria.com /history/rulers/boris1.html (641 words)

	BULGARIA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The city is situated in the centre of Southern Bulgaria, in the Upper Thracian Plain, along the banks of the Maritsa River.
		The Muslim population of Bulgaria lives mainly in northeastern Bulgaria and in the Rhodopi Mountains.
		Under today’s downtown section of Plovdiv are the ruins of an enormous Roman Stadium with a length of 180 m and with a capacity for 30,000 spectators.
	slovo.pu.acad.bg /30/plovdiv.htm (1406 words)

	Bulgaria
		Bulgaria joined NATO on 29 March 2004 and is set to join the European Union on 1 January 2007 after signing the Treaty of Accession on 25 April 2005.
		The southwest of the country is mountainous, containing the highest point of the Balkan Peninsula, peak Musala at 2,925 m, and the range of the Balkan mountains runs west-east through the middle of the country, north of the famous Rose Valley.
		On April 25th, 2005 Bulgaria signed the Treaty of Accession with the European Union and is set to join the bloc in 2007.
	www.creekin.net /n28-bulgaria.html (1536 words)

	Bulgaria - Gurupedia
		Bulgaria joined NATO in 2004 and is hoping to join the European Union in 2007.
		Bulgaria is comprised of the classical regions of Thrace,
		Bulgaria is also a historic state that existed in 10-14th centuries around the confluence of Volga and
	www.gurupedia.com /b/bu/bulgaria.htm (840 words)

	Christian Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicism
		Additional innovations and some of the policies of the Roman Church were responsible for the widening of the gap and for the creation of other splits within the body of the Roman Church, such as Protestantism with all its countless groups.
		This condemnation by the Roman Church is evidenced by a letter of Pope Pius VII to a Uniate Patriarch of the Melchites dated May, 1822, in which he terms the Invocation superfluous.
		The primacy of the Pope, therefore, served as a wedge to widen the gap between the Roman Catholic and Eastern Orthodox Churches.
	www.orthodoxresearchinstitute.org /articles/ecumenical/athenagoras_romancatholicism.htm (6183 words)

	The Ottoman Sultans of Turkey & Successors in Romania
		This was a thinly populated backwater for the Turks, noteworthy mainly for Roman ruins and piracy (with U.S. Marines landing at Tripoli in 1801).
		Bulgaria seems to have given up claims to Macedonia, but I am still not clear whether Macedonian is or is not a dialect of Bulgaria.
		The capital of the FYRM, Skopje (Roman Scupi), was definitely in the early Roman province of Moesia Superior (later Dacia Mediterranea).
	www.friesian.com /turkia.htm (12137 words)

	BULGARIA CESCR
		Bulgaria is situated at the crossroads of Europe and Asia on the Balkan Peninsula.
		Abortion was liberalized in Bulgaria in 1990 (according to some sources, prior to that women were required to obtain their husband’s consent and were allowed to have an abortion only after giving birth to two children).
		Bulgaria ranks 12th out of 23 European countries in the suicide rate among women, and suicide has been on the rise in the last three years.
	iwraw.igc.org /publications/countries/cescrbulgaria.htm (5503 words)

	New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge, Vol. II: Basilica - Chambers \| Christian Classics Ethereal ...
		BULGARIA: A principality under the suzerainty of Turkey in the northeastern part of the Balkan Peninsula, bounded on the north by Rumania, on the east by the Black Sea, on the south by Turkey, on the west by Servia.
		It was created by the Treaty of Berlin in 1878 and attained its present extent in 1885 by the addition of Eastern Rumelia (the territory south of the Balkan Mountains) after a revolt of the Bulgars there; in 1908 it proclaimed its independence; area, 38,080 square miles; population (1900), 3,744,283.
		In the principality of Bulgaria there are eleven dioceses, or eparchies, at Varna, Rustchuk (Cherven and Dorostol), Tirnova, Lovatz, Vratsa, and Widin north of the Balkans, and Sofia, Philippopolis, Stara Saghra, and Sliven south of this mountain range.
	www.ccel.org /ccel/schaff/encyc02.bulgaria.html (834 words)

	Roman Catholicism by country Summary
		Catholicism first reached Vietnam in the sixteenth century with the arrival of Portuguese missionaries.
		The facts that Catholicism is monotheistic and that its claims to spirituality are exclusive brought it into conflict with the traditional, Confucian order of things in Vietnam.
		The Société's principal aim was the spread of Catholicism in Asia, and it received not only the support of the papacy, but also of the French monarchy.
	www.bookrags.com /Roman_Catholicism_by_country (1562 words)

	bulgaria (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Republic of Bulgaria (Bulgarian: Ð ÐµÐ¿ÑÐ±Ð»Ð¸ÐºÐ° Ð‘ÑÐ»Ð³Ð°ÑÐ¸Ñ [re'publika bÉl'garia]), or Bulgaria (Bulgarian: Ð‘ÑÐ»Ð³Ð°ÑÐ¸Ñ), is a country in southeastern Europe.
		Bulgaria however was the only country that saved its entire Jewish population (around 50,000) from the Nazi camps by refusing to comply with a 31 August 1943 resolution, which demanded their deportation to Auschwitz.
		In the period between 1985 and 1989, the communist government of Bulgaria attempted to forcefully assimilate the country's Turkish minority.
	www.webfactorybulgaria.com /index1.php?id=175 (2535 words)

	Bulgaria and the Origin of Slavs - Little of Slavic and Bulgarian History
		In succeeding centuries, Bulgaria struggled with the Byzantine Empire to assert its place in the Balkans, but by the end of the 14th century the country was overrun by the Ottoman Turks.
		Bulgaria regained its independence in 1878 but, having fought on the losing side in both World Wars, it fell within the Soviet sphere of influence and became a People's Republic in 1946.
		Communist domination ended in 1990, when Bulgaria held its first multiparty election since World War II and began the contentious process of moving toward political democracy and a market economy while combating inflation, unemployment, corruption, and crime.
	slavs.freeservers.com /Bulgaria.html (1094 words)

	Romanian Orthodox Elders and Spiritual Fathers
		After the withdrawal of the Roman administration and army in the North of the Danube, in 271 A.D. the Christians, being no longer threatened by the pagan authority of Rome that chased and persecuted them for there faith, increased in number and started to organise themselves as a Church.
		In the East of the Carpatians there came into being the bishoprics of Roman and Radauti, in the 15th century, in the 16th century the bishopric of Husi, and in 1864 the bishopric of the Lower Danube.
		It consists in : the Archbishopric of Iasi, the Archbishopric of Suceava and Radauti, the Bishopric of Roman and the Bishopric of Husi.
	www.orthodoxphotos.com /Orthodox_Elders/Romanian/index.shtml (2923 words)

	'The Roman Empire under Constantine'
		In accordance with the Roman "Julian calendar," the "Saturnalia" festival appears to have taken place on December 17th; it was preceded by the "Consualia" near December 15th, and followed by the "Opalia" on December 19th.
		Roman Catholic Pope Gregory the XIII caused the current "Gregorian Calendar" to be adopted, in order to eliminate the solar time shift error that was introduced over the time period of 1,629 years by the inaccurate "Julian Calendar."
		On the new Roman Catholic Gregorian calendar the shortest annual day was numerically shifted back 10 days to the 22nd of December, where it remains to this day; while the original order of the seven days of the week remained unchanged.
	www.sabbatarian.com /Paganism/RomanEmpire.html (2813 words)

	Bulgarian translation, English to Bulgarian translation, Bulgarian to English translation, Bulgarian web site ...
		Bulgaria, republic in south-eastern Europe, was known from 1946 to 1990 as the People's Republic of Bulgaria.
		Situated in the Balkan Peninsula, Bulgaria is bordered on the north by Romania, on the east by the Black Sea, on the south by Turkey and Greece, and on the west by Serbia (part of the federation of Serbia and Montenegro) and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia.
		Bulgaria is in the Eastern European Time Zone.
	www.wintranslation.com /languages/bulgarian.html (331 words)

	Main Events of Bulgarian History, by Neytcho Iltchev
		Golden Age of Bulgaria: Simeon the Great (b.864; 893-927) accomplishes the greatest cultural achievements and territorial power with an outlet to the three seas - the Aegean, Black and Adriatic; in 913 he is crowned as the 'Emperor of the Bulgarians and Romans' by Patriarch Nicholas in Constantinople (
		The king of Volga Bulgaria Almus invites a mission from the Caliph of Baghdad al-Muktadir for explaining Islamic laws; Ibn Fadlan heads the mission and presents the king with gifts; the account of his journeys with the embassy, Risala; and the legend of the trip,
		Tsar Kaloyan restores the mighty power of Bulgaria; it stands out again as a major power in East Europe; the army of the Latin emperor Baldwin of Flanders is crushed near Adrianople (1204) and he is taken as a prisoner (chronique of G.
	www.geocities.com /nbulgaria/bulgaria/history0.htm (1464 words)

	Southern Cross Bulgaria
		The Republic of Bulgaria (Bulgarian: Република България) is a republic in the southeast of Europe.
		The president of Bulgaria (Georgi Purvanov since 22 January 2002) is directly elected for a 5-year term with the right to one re-election.
		Parliament elects the 12 members of the Constitutional Court by a two-thirds majority, the members serve a nine-year term.
	www.an-aussie-in-bulgaria.com /southern_cross/about_bg.htm (1644 words)

	A brief history of the Roman Catholic Church (200 AD to 2005 AD).
		From 200 AD to 380 AD, the Christian religion and the Roman Catholic Church formed and grew with the confines of the old Roman Empire.
		In 1600, the Roman Catholic Church condemned Giordano Bruno to be burned at the stake as a heretic.
		By 1859, the direct rule of the Pope and the Roman Catholic Church had been reduced to the several small Papal States, located in the middle of Italy.
	www.bottlebrushpress.com /romancatholicchurchhistory.html (571 words)

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